Based on actual events, the discovery of a decapitated human head in an old storm cellar leads to the unimaginable in a rural Texas community in 1925. Teenagers, Elvis Rivers and Aaron Martin, plunge into a night of terror when Elvis's trusty dog, Hootus, alerts on an old abandoned, partially caved-in cellar. Something is terribly wrong. After discovering and retrieving a bloody tow-sack from inside the cellar, Elvis quickly drops it when he sees inside - the decapitated head of a teenage boy. A telephone call alerts the authorities. The local funeral home displays the nameless, decapitated head until finally, one man knows the victim and the sheriff has a lead to start an investigation. It doesn't take long for the whole gruesome mess to unravel.